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Republican lawmakers are working with the Secretary of State’s Office to overhaul the state’s campaign finance system with a 54-page rewrite critics say is too long and complicated to rush through the Legislature.

In its first meeting since the Governor’s Regulator Review Council ordered it to repeal a handful of rules, including one that could force disclosure from some dark money groups, the Citizens Clean Elections commission responded with silence.

A federal appeals court has reversed course and now says Arizona can prohibit some candidates for elected judgeships from soliciting campaign contributions or participating in somebody else's campaign.

Advocates of two proposed amendments to the Arizona Constitution that would dramatically change the face of elections in Arizona have officially joined forces and are preparing to launch their campaign for 2016.

Attorneys for former Attorney General Tom Horne and a former aide urged the Arizona Court of Appeals to overturn a $400,000 fine for campaign finance violations on the grounds that Yavapai County Attorney Sheila Polk violated their due process rights by serving a dual role as both the decision-making in the enforcement action and the prosecutor in their court case.

A five-year saga over the identity of the contributors who funded a Democratic campaign group’s ads against Tom Horne in the 2010 attorney general’s race ended on Monday after the group disclosed its contributors to the Secretary of State’s Office.

By May, the Secretary of State’s Office expects to officially unveil a new online system that it says will revolutionize the way people can search and sort through campaign finance data, from the state level down to Arizona’s smallest counties and towns.

The Arizona Republican Party filed a complaint against a group that wants to create a “top-two” primary in the state, claiming the organization failed to report large contributions to election officials, though the largest donation it referenced is not subject to the state’s campaign finance laws.